Klemen Bauer, who a few years ago was often in the lead, cannot count this season as a successful one. So far, he has managed to score points in the competition only twice. The Slovene has problems at the shooting range, but also does not show a good running condition. Despite everything, he had a chance to go to the Olympics.
Klemen Bauer does not want to vaccinate and quit the Olympics
The world vice-champion in the mixed relay race from 10 years ago qualified for Beijing, but he will not go there. The condition for going to China is to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. he insisted that he would not accept the antidote and resign from calling on the most important event of the four years.
– I wanted to go to the end and I believed to the end that vaccination would not be a condition for participation. When it turned out otherwise in October, I thought about what to do for a long time. It was one of the most difficult decisions in my life – said Klemen Bauer.
The 36-year-old was able to go to his fifth Olympics. – As an experienced athlete, I approach my own body and health with particular care and respect. I always pay attention to what happens to my body during training and competition and I have a lot of confidence in my own immune system – said the representative of Slovenia.
The local media compare the situation of Bauer to the famous tennis player. – Supposedly [Djokoviæ] already seriously thinking about the tournament unvaccinated under the Nole Tour brand. He may be welcomed in countries our president likes to describe as having a communist past and which still have problems with vaccinations because of evil communists. Well, if you hurry up and organize the first in a series of tournaments during the Winter Olympics, our biathlete Klemen Bauer, who will not go to Beijing, will also be able to join him. They have at least one thing in common, wrote journalists dnevnik.si.
The sports editorial team of team24.si corrects, however, that the situations of both athletes are completely different. Djokoviæ fight to the end for participation in. Klemen Bauer himself made the decision to withdraw from the Games and accepted his fate.
Source: Sport
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